1009 WOLCOTT (ERASTUS, Member of the Continental Congress). L. s. (by Wolcott and others), 2 pp., 4to. New Haven, Nov. 4th, 1773. To Peyton Randolph and others of the Virginia Committee of Correspondence. Signed also by Wm. Williams, Silas Deane, Ebenezer Silliman, Sam. H. Parsons, and Benjamin Payne. With reference to the enactment of laws to suppress counterfeiting.

"... The late resolution of the Ministers to permit Teas being sent by the East India Company to Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, where they are daily expected, give us the most uneasy apprehensions ..though we have the utmost Confidence in the Firmness and Virtue of the inhabitants of those Capital Towns . . .”

HOLOGRAPH LETTER OF JAMES WOLFE

1010 WOLFE (JAMES). A. L. s., 2 pp., 4to, Glasgow, June 19, 1753. Mounted on hinge, and bound, with transcription and portraits. Folio, limp russet straight-grain morocco.

A FINE EXAMPLE OF AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE AUTOGRAPH.

...

"I have reduced all my Intelligence now to the Single Pen of Lord
Burry; the good lady, my mother, used to tell me what was doing in
ye world, but I have heard nothing of her this age; this is a consider-
able loss to me as my other correspondents are dispersed..
"Our Trapaud has got the Deputy Government of Fort Augustus and
the Duke of Richmond is to succeed him; this is more honour to the
regiment than profit, but it may hereafter occasion a vacancy in our
favour," etc.

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1011 WOOD (JOSEPH, Officer in the American Revolution, Member Continental Congress). A. L. s., 3 pp. folio. Camp Ticonderoga, Nov. 19, 1776. To Robert Morris.

FINE WAR LETTER. "In my way here I visited all the post, Amboy,
Bergen, & Gen. Washington's Camp, where I found the army in high
sperrits wishing for nothing more than to engage the Enemy
The Enemy sent a reconnoitering Party to three mile point, a boat
from there came up opposite the Jersey Redout with Charlton,
Burgoine & Phillips, three Shot was fir'd from the Redout at them,
the last of which hul'd thir Boat, Kil'd two men, & wounded one
other

1012 WOODBURY (LEVI, Secretary of the Treasury under Jackson and Van Buren). A. L. s., 2 pp., 4to. Senate Chamber, Dec. 1, 1828. To Rev. W. B. Sprague.

Mentions Josiah Bartlett and other signers, and is interesting as showing how autograph letters are sometimes obtained.

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REDUCED FACSIMILE OF LETTER OF WOLFE

CELEBRATION OF INDEPENDENCE BY VIRGINIA

SOLDIERS

1013 WOODFORD (WILLIAM, Brig. Gen. in the Revolution). A. L. s., 2 pp., 4to. Williamsburg, July 25, 1776. Repaired, backed with silk gauze, and some words defective.

AN EARLY, AND PROBABLY THE FIRST, CELEBRATION OF INDEPENDENCE BY VIRGINIA TROOPS. This letter gives a Program of the Celebration, the reading of the Declaration of Independence, and the firing of cannon and small arms, with grog for the soldiers at the finish.

1014 A. L. s., 3 pp., 4to. Petersburg, March 6, 1780. To Gen. Lincoln.

FINE LETTER and a rare autograph, written while Gen. Woodford was on his famous march to aid in the defence of Charlestown, when at the head of the Virginia troops he travelled over 500 miles in 28 days. This letter tells of abandoning his baggage and the route he would march.

1015 WORTH (WILLIAM JENKINS, General, Indian Fighter). 2 A. L. s. and 1 D. s. (twice), 1 p. each, 4to and folio. West Point, Nov. 18, 1822; Feb. 23, 1825; and Feb. 9, 1825. To Smith Weed and to the Executor of the Estate of John Stafford. 3 pieces.

1016 WYLLYS (SAMUEL, Colonel in the Revolution). 5 D. s., 1 to 4 pp. each, folio. [Hartford], n. d. Each bears a splendid impression of the Great Seal. Certified copies of early Connecticut documents.

One is a document in the New York-Connecticut Boundary Dispute, between the Delegates of the Commissioners of the United English Colonies and the Delegates of Peter Stuyvesant; two are copies of the original Connecticut Patent of 1631. It was upon the Wyllys property that the Charter Oak stood.

1017 YATES (ABRAHAM, Member Continental Congress). 10 A. L. s., 17 pp., 4to and folio. Kingston and Marble Town, Aug. 17 to Oct. 27, 1777. To Matthew Visscher and John Barckly.

A fine collection of Historical Letters giving an account of the attack on Kingston, the dread of Burgoyne's approach to Albany and the hurried departure of many families, feverish reports of the destruction of the British army in New Jersey, etc.

1018 YATES (CHRISTOPHER P., Major during the American Revolution). 5 A. L. s., 10 pp., folio. Still Water and Palatine, Aug. 6, 1777 to July 22, 1778. To Matthew Visscher, Albany. On the movements of the army, danger of Indian attacks, etc.

1019

A. L. s., 2 pp., 4to. Canajoharie, Aug. 31st, 1779. To John Taylor. Offering advice on the desirability of confiscated properties.